The crisis in the oceans

[rainforests1]

Fish are being killed at a very unsustainable rate. It's estimated marine fisheries employ some 200,000,000 people. The fish are suffering today but this will not help humans over the long-term. Do you think humans will continue to eat fish until there's no more fish to eat, or do they actually do something about this?

 

[yakherder]

Do you think humans will continue to eat fish until there's no more fish to eat, or do they actually do something about this?

Hard to predict, it could go either way. People are very unpredictable in regards to which causes they decide to take an interest in. For the average couch potato consumer, movies like Little Nemo are probably more effective at creating interest in marine ecology than scientific facts showing them how they're slowly killing themselves. If you want to make a change, the first thing you need to understand is that people are not rational.

Remember the movie "Babe"? When it came out, it temporarily crippled the pork industry in parts of Southeast Asia. Preach environmentalism and sustainability and no one gives a damn. Show them a cute pig and all of a sudden it triggers their empathy.

 

[Calliegirl]

I think they will have to get to critically low levels before anything done. Then people will go out and illegally fish because they think it's their right, plus the fish will go for a high price on the black market.
In the end, we are going to have very polluted, empty oceans.

 

[mlp]

I agree with Calliegirl.

As a species, we're not great at foresight, we have short attention spans, and we're all about immediate gratification.

 

[ledboots]

I think they will have to get to critically low levels before anything done. Then people will go out and illegally fish because they think it's their right, plus the fish will go for a high price on the black market.
In the end, we are going to have very polluted, empty oceans.

And people will eat weak, antibiotic-filled factory farmed fish.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

I've heard plenty of people talk about declining fish populations, then proclaim "better eat as many as you can now!"

 

[CrazyCatLady]

Just seen an advert in channel 4 (UK) which looks like there's a show or series on regarding this! Xxx